Commander Game

Funny story. I looked up the rules on colour identity to make certain that colour-setting text is valid, confirmed that it was, added the ability, then forgot that was the challenge. So I went to check, and scrolled too far up. Consequently, this is a card that gets its colour identity from its rules text, and cares about things that are "not".

Judging in the next couple days, get those entries in!

Whoops, thanks for the reminder! Judging in progress, please wait. Judging has arrived!

viriss - Yowlenex, the Spellburner: This is interesting, as it actually benefits from the self sacrifice. An interesting mono-red big mana style commander.

Flo00 - Chradloc of Darkhaven: An cool take on grixis spellslinger. It really likes the black additional life cost spells. I do wonder how difficult it would be to build though.

Jartis - Roshk, Conduit of the Dead: Props for making a planeswalker that fits the challenge. I'd bet the numbers for the loyalty abilities could be tweaked to make it a bit more powerful, but still balanced.

Lady Mapi - Hasha, Drowned in Color: I did say you could do weird stuff. The question is, when do you check color identity to determine deck legality? I also wonder if the correct build is to build mono white anthems with the occasional incidental commander damage kill.

thaneofglamis - Zivin, Molded of Marrow: I like that this can go all-in on lifelink tribal, or go for a reanimator style build. Hybrid mana mana was a good choice for this.

sdfkjgh - Eleanor Abernathy, Crazy Cat Lady: As much as I want to like this card, because the effects are a fun package I have a couple issues. 1) You're really suffering from smalltext. I think cutting the first ability would help that tremendously without hurting the integrity of the card. 2) The flavor kinda turns me off; I prefer my Magic without The Simpsons, sorry. I know that's much more subjective, but that's my preference and I'm the one judging.

kefke - Patience: I really like this card, but unfortunately it doesn't work as a commander. You have no casting cost, and suspend doesn't work from the command zone. You'd have to create commander suspend in the same way Yuriko got "commander ninjutsu," or building a  deck with this basically needs Command Beacon. You also have the smalltext issue, which could be resolved by ditching the reminder text if it wasn't necessary because of how complicated suspend is.

melono - Linuk, Constructing Construct: This is cool, but again, I woory that small text might be an issue, given that you have six distinct lines of rules text. You could probably get away with an Odric style wording. I also kinda wish that the colors were in order on the card.

Going to give the win to thaneofglamis with Flo00 as the runner-up

Oops, sorry! 
Next challenge: Make a commander that only has creature types that are animals in real life!

Yes, hydras are real, but I'd say that kind of breaks the spirit of the challenge, since mythical/MTG hydras are clearly a different kind of creature. Same as if you made a dragon claiming that komodo dragons are real animals.

I have a really strong urge to be a smartass and make a Lion Turtle, but I think I'd have to make a whole set's worth of AtLA mechanics to go with it, so no.

That's fair, I wanted to get cute with it. Entry amended.

sdfkjgh - Dang it. You beat me to my second pick.

You know what? I have a different approach to the same story, so I'm doing it anyway.



Obviously, this card wants to be in a deck with a lot of type hate, and preferably type setting. Which probably works against it in a vacuum, since doesn't really have the infrastructure. However, I imagine this card existing in an environment where the Coward type is used more, and more cards and colours interact with it.

As a fun fact, I had the idea of "specifically flanking Cowards" first. However, when I looked up the flanking mechanics to make sure I remembered them right and they'd work for what I wanted, I found out that my "typeflanking" was actually very on-brand. According to MaRo, while flanking is a 7 on the storm scale, a renamed flanking that didn't reference other flankers would be much more likely to return, and it would likely be in black if it did.

hehe funny. mom.

April, Hearth and Home
Legendary Creature - Human
When ~ enters the battlefield, create a Food token.
Humans you control get +0/+1 for each Food you control.
, : Create a Food token.
2/2

Don't forget Aurochs, Sable, Trilobite, and Wombat!
(Aurochs and Trilobite are extinct, but you did includ Dinosaur)

Jartis: You did not just... *sigh* You did...

Jartis: You also forgot Human. That's a pretty big oopsie.

No time for proper judging, but MaiApologies (She/Her) wins!